Baade's Window

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Baade's Window is an area of the sky with relatively low amounts of interstellar dust along the line of sight from Earth. This area is considered an observational "window" as the normally obscured Galactic Center of the Milky Way is visible in this direction.

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Image: NASA, ESA, Z. Levay (STScI) and A. Fujii, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.